Charlie Pierce
Charlie Pierce
Charles P. "Charlie" Pierceis an American sportswriter, political blogger, author, and game show panelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBlogger
Date of Birth28 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
self honor needs
We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.
optimistic optimism despair
Optimism....is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair.
heart government may
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.
college deceit fundamentals
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
congratulations pride self
Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.
kings men years
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.
memories character two
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
sarcastic mother sarcasm
If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
people disease dames
One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
mother gay sarcasm
It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
greedy reckless violent
There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.
office people tolerance
According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
men modern he-man
The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.
government important matter
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.